The 60th Volume of Population Review, a peer-reviewed journal of social demography first published in 1957, recently came to press featuring the 10 most-downloaded articles since the journal has been digitally available. One of these top-ten articles is co-authored by CSDE Affiliate David Swanson with his colleagues Mary McGehee and Nazrul Hoque. Their 2009 paper, “Socio-Economic Status and Life Expectancy in the United States, 1970–1990,” interrogates the connection between social inequality and population health outcomes. Congratulations, David!
Raftery Delivers Fields Institute’s Keyfitz Lecture in Mathematics and the Social Sciences
On February 3, 2022, the University of Toronto’s Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences recognized Adrian Raftery’s scientific contributions with an invitation to deliver the Keyfitz Lecture in Mathematics and the Social Sciences. Keyfitz was a Canadian demographer and pioneer in the field of mathematical demography. It was Keyfitz’s 1972 article ‘On Future of Population’ in the Journal of the American Statistical Association that first proposed probabilistic forecasting approaches in estimating future populations. Thus, it was a fitting that 50 years later Raftery be invited to give this endowed lecture on the subject of Bayesian approaches to very long term population forecasts. To see more details about the lecture you can visit the Fields Institute’s announcement about the lecture and watch the lecture on YouTube. Congratulations Adrian! We at the UW feel very lucky to count you in our midsts!
UW Today Highlights Mokdad’s Leadership in Population Health Research
CSDE Affiliate, UW Chief Strategy Officer for Population Health, and Professor of Health Metrics Sciences Ali Mokdad was recently given in a spotlight in UW Today. The article covered the arc of Mokdad’s career at the CDC, what drew him to UW, the connections across his work experiences in public health, and how that has informed his role and led to projects such as the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation COVID-19 projections which are regularly cited by news outlets.
Marquez and Colleagues Explore Effects of COVID-19 on Life Expectancies in Prison
CSDE Fellow Neal Marquez and co-authors from the UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project recently published a new paper in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, available in full HERE. The article presents an analysis of mortality records from the Florida State Department of Corrections prison system in 2019 and 2020, comparing these records to the overall Florida population. The authors find that COVID-19 decreased life expectancy of the prison population by four years.
Apply to Attend: Population, Health & Armed Conflict in Asia Conference
On June 17th and 18th, 2022, the University of Utah’s Asia Center will host a conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, for scholars researching population, health and migration in contexts of Asia affected by armed conflict and organized violence. The purpose of this conference is to support, discuss, disseminate and elevate the profile of scholarship on armed conflict, population and health, and to demonstrate the significance of PHAC globally and especially within Asia. There is no registration fee, and conference sponsors will cover participants’ airfare (up to $500), ground transportation, meals during the conference, and two-three nights of accommodation. Applications are due March 1, 2022.